Verity by Colleen Hoover 😡 rant review

Today is a rant review for Verity, a thriller/romance by Colleen Hoover. This is my first time reading a book by her, and it did not go well!

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[WhytheBookWins]

For those interested, I read It Ends With Us and made a video about it. Link for that video is in the description!

[Books-and-coffee]

If I hear a Booktok girl descibe Jeremy's and Lowens relationship as "romance" just one more time... The reason why so many young people equal sex with love is books like this.

[Sleepypawpaw]

The ending is so bad it’s the equivalent of “it’s all a dream “ type of ending

[heatherr.]

Okay, hear me out… I really thought that Jeremy was the one who wrote the manuscript. He didn’t feel like a perfect Angel of a man to me. Something is immensely creepy about letting your wife be in that state and thinking it’s fine that another woman write her books for her, while living in your house. Saying that Verity read Low’s books, but really it was him? And he allegedly he didn’t read Verity’s, so how could he know if it was similar? And why would he like Low’s if they were? And just like Corey falling in love with her character but not her, I felt like that was going to play a role. It fell so flat for me. The sex seemed writer by a man, and I was really hoping for an off the wall flip, but I got nothing but a damn letter.

[Loganm]

Honestly, Collenn Hoover in general has been very underwhelming for me. They are definitely easy reads, but they don't muster up much emotion for me. I'm beyond shocked that so many people feel her books so deeply.

[elihflms]

i never hear people talk about how bad the ending of this book is, so this was refreshing omg. just from a writing perspective the last lines made me roll my eyes; colleen literally spells out the conflict like she doesn't trust her readers to be smart enough to figure it out. it just felt so lazy and condescending.

[emilyrose]

I will have to admit that part of me wanted Lowen to be the villain of the story. Something about how quickly she jumped to calling the master bedroom HER room and Verity’s office HER office. It made me suspicious.

But is that what Colleen was trying to do?

[rayanaiche]

I honestly believe that the letter was totally untrue. Verity comes out as very manipulative, especially as she is known as a thriller writer as her series are all from a villains perspective . The letter was definitely something she wrote towards Jeremy in order to cover her tracks. Definitely a poor ending to read as I was waiting for a something way more intriguing.

[Nightlightknight]

The twist is obvious from the beginning but the real mind freak is the secondary reveal that nobody acts like a real person.

[tinternabbess]

Great review. Just finished the book, and was dying to hear some like-minded opinions!
This book had a lot of potential, could have been much better, but I felt it just imploded about 2/3 through. Then the ending was a straight-up mess. I had heard about the "twist" so I read it carefully and even highlighted things that seemed like foreshadowing. And then... POOF- threads were just DROPPED. The creepier aspects of the book made it compelling, and I wanted to find out what was really going on, so when I read "The End" I felt really cheated. Yet glad it was over; it was downright silly at times. I think about 2.5 of 5.

Very fair and reasoned review- thanks!

[priscilae.]

Just read it and I had the same experience. For a moment I thought that Laura actually had written the manuscript so that Jeremy would make a life with her without feeling guilt. Another, better ending (in my opinion) would have been if Jeremy was the one that wrote it to blame his wife for the murder of her kid when in fact it was him. Anyways, the ending sucked but it could have been so good.

[_tone]

For me it was just cheesy and got ridiculous at the end, I was embarrassed to explain it to my fiancé because it just cracked me up how things went down. It was all good until the her birthday and I just felt annoyed by them. Everything after that ruined the book for me. I wish verity just ended up attacking Lowen 😅 would’ve been SO MUCH BETTER.

[maramuther]

The fact that she is called Varity and that it literally means “truth” makes it soo hard for me to decide whose side I’m on

[mansiii]

I think the letter was verity's way of covering her own tracks because it was written after she knew that lowen has been reading her autobiography manuscript. She could have written the letter beforehand or else.

Also why would you tell your one child only to hold the breath. She could have told them collectively.

And what was crew doing with a knife in verity's room.

Ps I kinda enjoyed the book :)

[amymoser]

I 100% agree with this review - I kept reading because I thought it HAD to get better but it never did. The “romance” was gratuitous at best and poorly written. The “twist” was absolutely lazy and I didn’t find anything creepy. Jeremy was the least interesting character and to believe anyone would be infatuated with him was a total stretch. I should have stuck to my better judgement and never opened the book. 0/5

[sarahjane-koiq]

I really disliked this book! I kept reading because I thought it couldn’t get worse, but I was wrong. To go from one chapter about intense child abuse to the next with a gratuitous sex scene wasn’t for me. It seemed more like it was all written for the shock factor instead of focusing on actually writing a really good story. I don’t understand all the love for this book either.

[FernandaHermsdorff]

Something left unexplained is who helped Verity. Because Jeremy said he saw all of her exams and she couldn’t be faking it, so who faked her exams? She couldn’t have done that alone. Did a secret doctor no one mentioned help her? Did April help her? Did Jeremy help her and this was some sick story between them? Who the hell helped Verity fake everything? She wasn’t alone. And it couldn’t have been her 5 year old son. It gotta be someone else. (Sorry about my english, it is not my first language ❤)

[rosauramartinez]

If the manuscript was false then how did the twin get such a deep scar??? Even the doctor did not believe his own explanations of the scar.

[randomist]

I just finished this book and I feel like a little disappointed. I totally agree with you. The part, "It was all for fun!" on the manuscript letter fucked my head up. It was literally going so good and awesome but then it went downhill from there, when they both killed her it made me so disappointed I knew there was no reasonable happy ending to this. I really wanted them to contact the police and happy ending. Because that's how books are supposed to be- lol jk but seriously kind of made me weird and okay about it? Now I'm as confused as Jeremy however the only enjoyable and awesome person in this book was definitely Crew. He is absolutely adorable but also, don't let your kids handle a knife, even if it's a butter knife Lowen.

[ElizabethUkeh]

In my opinion, the book was just bad and cringe. If it wasn't written by Colleen Hoover, it won't be so hyped